English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
ROUND UP or ROUND OFF?
We should round ~up~ this meal with a bowl of ice cream (nonstandard).
We should round *off* this meal with a bowl of ice cream (standard).
We should round *out* this meal with a bowl of ice cream (American English).
To complete something in a satisfying or suitable way is to round off that thing.
Round up is used in the following contexts:
The activity of driving or collecting a number of animals together for a particular purpose:
The cows are rounded up for milking once a day (standard).
Also, ‘round up’ is used to mean the action of arresting a number of people:
I am sure the police will round up that gang soon (standard).
GAB
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